February 10, 2023 – Heads of offices, designated officials, and office secretaries from both campuses of the University attended the orientation on the Monthly Monitoring System of the institutional operational plan and GAA Targets for 2023 at the University Hotel Conference Room. Organized by the Planning Office, the orientation emphasized a more systematic and productive year of service in contribution to the achievement of the regional and national developmental plans.
Members of the Local Council for the Culture and the Arts of the Province of Samar had a meeting last February 10, 2023 at Samar Tourism Office, Catbalogan City, Samar. The attendees discussed the funded programs, plans, projects, and activities for 2023. Some of the promising plans with NwSSU as an academe partner are the opening of research, extension, and graduate programs on cultural preservation management. NwSSU was represented by the Director of the Student Affairs and Services Dr. Myra L. Pilpa, and ASCA Head Mr. Cerilo A. Irinco. As a special token of participation in the meeting, the NwSSU delegation received a copy of a rare book anthology of Samareño songs.
NwSSU delegation headed by University President Dr. Benjamin L. Pecayo signed the Memorandum of Agreement for the Agriculture program with Universitas Brawijaya Rector Professor Widodo today, February 9, 2023 in Malang, Indonesia. As felt desirable and feasible on either side, the areas of cooperation include any agricultural programs offered by either institution that contribute to the fostering and development of the educational and cultural cooperative relationship between the two universities. The cooperation will carry out through programs, activities, and projects such as faculty and student exchange, joint conferences, exchange of cultural activity, and research collaboration.
February 6, 2023 – NwSSU Process Owners convened at the Business Development Center for the reorientation on the ISO-required documents. Ms. Claville Meneses presented the approved timeline for the ISO First Annual Surveillance for 2023 followed by Ms. Florabel C. Canaman led the revisiting and updating of RIPs, PESTLE-SWOT, Risk and Opportunity Registers, Open CARs, Action Plans, procedures, and forms. For the last part of the reorientation, Dr. Rodolfo F. Dollado Jr. presented the documents for the agenda during the MRC Meeting.
The first National Peace Convention organized by the Volunteer Individuals for Peace, a non-government organization promoting peace and non-violence chaired by CHED Commissioner Dr. Ronald L. Adamat was held last January 25, 2023 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC). The event which had the theme “Peace Builds One Nation, One Future – Peace is Here” was attended by over 1,500 participants from different sectors. The NwSSU delegation was led by University President Benjamin L. Pecayo. In partnership with Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL) and through the leadership of its chairman Lee Man-Hee, the convention produced a resolution for the declaration of a National Peace Day which will be presented to President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr
January 21, 2023 – An orientation-planning for the project “Development and Learning Loss Recovery: Strengthening Systems for Capacity Building of Child Development Workers and Child Development Teachers” was held at the Business Development Center at NwSSU Main Campus last January 19-20, 2023. The event which was exclusive for the PSWDO and Provincial ECCD Focal persons of Northern Samar and Samar, and the MSWD Officers and ECCD Focal Persons of the Municipalities of Gandara, Pagsanghan, Tarangnan, Catarman, Lope de Vega, Mapanas, and Mondragon focused on achieving the event’s objectives namely (1) Understand the need to strengthen systems for capacity building of Child Development Workers/Child Development Teachers at the local level, (2) Be familiar with the upcoming one-year partnership between and among LGU, UP Center for Women’s Studies Foundation Inc., NwSSU, and UNICEF and agree on the roles and responsibilities of each partner; and to (3) Discuss the overall implementation, mechanisms, and modalities for the partnership and timelines. NwSSU through the efforts of the Office of the Gender and Development acts as the Local Academe Partner of the project. “I am hoping that we can come together to work for the better future as we are undoubtedly shifting to what we were once accustomed to… may we be effective members of the community as you direct your involvement and participation means a lot to us.” – University President Benjamin L. Pecayo Resource speakers of the event included Dr. Excelsa C. Tongson from the Faculty of the Department of Family Life and Child Development, College of Home Economics, University of the Philippines, and UNICEF Philippines Early Childhood Specialist Ms. Psyche Vetta Olayvar. On the second day, the participants made field visits and courtesy calls to the selected partner LGUs namely Pagsanghan, Gandara, and Tarangnan.